Jurors in the Barbara Sheehan murder trial say they are “hopelessly deadlocked,” but a judge told them to “take a deep breath” and resume deliberations.

After only two days of talks, the nine – woman, three-man panel said they reached an impasse, and were unable to say unanimously whether or not Sheehan is guilty of murder in the shooting death of her allegedly abusive husband.

“We are hopelessly deadlocked,” read a note from the jury foreman to Judge Barry Kron. “This is after a lot of deliberations.”

Sheehan showed no immediate reaction to a development that could potentially set her free.

But Kron implored the jurors to take another crack at it.

“Based on the volume of testimony, it seems like you’ve deliberated a long time,” Kron said. “But it isn’t. T ake a deep breath and take your time. Narrow down areas of disagreement and decide based on testimony who’s being truthful, who’s being accurate. I will now ask you to go back and continue to deliberate.”

The impasse came hours after jurors asked for a readback of Sheehan’s dramatic testimony detailing her version of events of the Feb. 18, 2008 murder.

Sheehan cried uncontrollably as she listened with the jury to her own words. The Queens mother, who is, charged with second-degree murder, started weeping the moment a court reporter began reading her testimony for jurors deliberating her fate.

For 20 minutes she cried into a tissue until a court officer walked to her side, bent over and whispered something in her ear.

After that, she kept her head down and listened to her own version of how she killed her ex cop husband in their Howard Beach home.

If jurors were sympathetic, they didn’t show it, looking only at the court reporter reading the transcript.

One of the three alernate jurors released as deliberations began yesterday said they would have found Sheehan not guilty, but declined to elaborate.